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Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish
painter, sculptor, printmaker,
ceramicist and theatre designer
who spent most of his adult life in
France. Pablo Picasso, in full Pablo Diego formerly the Château Grimaldi at Antibes,
José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno is built upon the foundations of the ancient
Crispín Crispiniano María Remedios Greek town of Antipolis. Antibes is a resort
de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso, town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in
also called (before 1901) Pablo Ruiz por southeastern France, on the Mediterranean
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, (born October 25, Sea – just 20 minutes from Cannes) was
1881, Málaga, Spain - died April 8, 1973, one of the owners of one of our apartments
Mougins, France), Spanish expatriate in Cannes. Our daughter Tala Nicole was
painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, born there in 1979 and our children did
and stage designer, one of the greatest and attend school there over a six year period.
most-influential artists of the 20th century I had many studios in Cannes – inspiration
and the creator (with George Braque) of is in the air, it is the allure of another era,
Cubism. the Cote D’Azur is a magical part of the
world for artists and visitors alike.
“My first encounter with meeting an
individual who actually had weekly cordial We also spent summers in Sitges, Cataluna,
conversations with Picasso at the Cannes a seaside resort 20 minutes from Barcelona
market in the South of France, (before he -Paloma, Picasso’s daughter, owned a bar
moved on to Antibes –The Musée Picasso, there–and she often reminisced about her
Father, Picasso.
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